WASHINGTON — At the ribbon-cutting ceremony of his new luxury Washington hotel, Donald Trump characteristically showed no sign of self-doubt in the face of polls showing Hillary Clinton with a comfortable lead in the presidential race less than two weeks before Election Day.
In an interview with Bloomberg Politics’ co-managing editor Mark Halperin, the Republican presidential nominee said polls are underestimating his support in several battleground states while his supercharged final push would put him over the top in others.
“We are gonna win,” Trump said. If he wasn’t absolutely sure that he’d clinch at least 270 electoral votes, Trump said he’d shift his language by vowing to “try to win” without guaranteeing it.
Surveying the electoral map, Trump offered a much brighter forecast than the one suggested by polls in swing states like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Florida. A national poll released late Wednesday by Associated Press/GfK showed him losing to Clinton by a massive 14 points, 51%-39%, while a Fox News national survey also released Wednesday had Clinton ahead by three points, 44 percent to 41 percent.